Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science

In Measure for Measure, Thomas Levenson offers a compelling account of how scientific thinking development from the day 2,500 years ago when Pythagoras discovered the musical scale to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical: the organ, the microscope, the still, the scales, Stradivari's miraculous violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers. What emerges is a unique portrait of science itself as an instrument, our single most powerful way of understanding the world. Yet perhaps the most important invention of modern science has been the power to countenance its own limitations, to find the point beyond which science can explain no more, to rediscover that science, like music, is an art.

Author: Thomas Levenson
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 12/19/1995
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.38h x 6.04w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9780684804347
ISBN10: 0684804344
BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Science | Research & Methodology

About the Author
Thomas Levenson is an academic, science writer and documentary film-maker.